Fisheye

I just got a fisheye lens. I've never used one before, so I'm out trying to get the hang of using it. The main thing I want it for is shooting buildings and processing the images to remove the distortion. It seems to work well for that. It's cheaper and has less distortion than the currently available super-wide zooms.

Here's something that's not architecture.

The 15mm rectangular fisheye is one of my favorite lenses... and I mostly shoot people. While it wreaks havoc with architectural lines, it's actually much more friendly to people on the edges of the frame than is a rectilinear UWA — unless and until, that is, you apply processing to "remove the distortion." If you look at what that does to a human figure at the edge of the frame, you'll see that you're really just trading one form of distortion (curved straight lines) for another (stretching of forms). So, for people shots, "uncorrected" is often "better."

Just take care to keep your feet out of the frame! ;-)


Nill

Nice lens. The photo doesn't even look like a fisheye, except maybe a bit on top, but then again I don't know how level it was.